The speaker thinks the arguments about AI risks would have been harder to understand six years earlier, even though their broad structure would have been similar.

“understanding what's going on if we can actually you know align them well so they actually like you know try to help us and so I hope that maybe even if the arguments are complicated now this would have been even harder you know six years ago even though the shape of the arguments would have looked broadly pretty similar and so maybe you know hopefully before it's too late these arguments will become you know this whole thing will become more crisp and clear and we can all sort of”